Why do bureaucrats not get that? What is it about the mathematics of supply and demand that make educated politicians turn into mindless anti-market morons? Doubly so when that math is applied to labor?

I try to understand opposing views on this. The argument most frequently offered is that we need more government intervention because the previous government intervention we did is causing problems:

@benkross help me understand the big picture. i've got this idea that jobs, real jobs that lead to better jobs is the big picture

Here in Minnesota we just raised our minimum wage, and I could cry about it for the damage it does to the most marginalized in our society. Teenagers, minorities, immigrants. These are the people the plantation owners - the technocrats living fat off our taxes - are hurting.

A gelato shop, Rita's, just opened in the strip mall near me. Hundreds of teenagers applied. They applied for the money for sure, but mostly they were just kids looking for a fun job.